From $100,000 in Debt to Co-Founding an 8-Figure Business

Noah Kagan Presents

Noah Kagan

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2017

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

When Chad Boyda graduated high school at 16, he and tried chasing his startup dream… but it didn’t go according to plan. He ended up with $100,000 in debt. But years later, he finally found success co-founding Sumo.com with me. Learn Chad’s lessons on self-improvement and entrepreneurship from his rollercoaster journey.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Noah Kagan presents.
0:04.4	What up party people, it's your boy, crab cake,
0:11.6	aka Rabbi Cantlose, aka Noah no Kagan I have a very special
0:15.0	guest today it is Chad Boida my business husband that technically means I'm the
0:21.4	business wife yes we've been working together on app sumo.com
0:25.0	Our Groupon for Geek's Business and sumo.com are free tools to grow your
0:28.7	email list for over seven years and he was my previous customer at my last startup. In this episode we have a lot of
0:35.2	really interesting stories. First off it's how Chad got into debt for over $100,000 starting a business so he's got a lot of great
0:42.0	tips on how to start and grow a business
0:43.8	and what he learned from that. Being your own boss how to go and do that, why feedback is critical
0:49.5	and how he plans to live till 400. There's a bunch of other meaty bits in there. Enjoy.
0:54.4	All right, episode 4,000. We're in Touloum, Mexico, Playa del Carmen. I'm with Chad, my business partner.
1:06.0	Neville actually, I said, who's the most interesting person I should talk to you next and he chose you.
1:09.3	Wow. You know that? I mean, this is more of a self-servingserving thing but I feel very fortunate that a lot of people have never left America.
1:14.8	A few of the guys on the team never been on planes. Like that's just crazy that we can provide them.
1:18.6	We repelled into a cave with water and like I don't think anybody on the trip had done that before and every like
1:26.4	at least half the team was like terrified to do it then like all these people
1:30.9	stepped up and then when other people saw them do it they're like oh
1:34.1	I got to do it and then everybody did it and as soon as they hit the water like oh my
1:37.8	God this is amazing like this is so cool I'm so glad I did it you just got to
1:41.8	push people a little bit out of their comfort zone and then they're like, wow.
1:45.0	Where's the balance between pushing someone and then letting them do it themselves?
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